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Facebook shares plunge on second day of trading

Posted May 21, 2012 - 12:47 pm

Shares of social networking giant Facebook plummet in early Monday trading nearly 14% below Friday's first-day closing price.
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What Facebook will do to improve its mobile juice after the IPO

Posted May 18, 2012 - 11:48 am

One thing you might ask about Facebook's huge IPO: what are they going to do with all that money? One place it’s going is into the social network’s mobile presence, where Facebook is less sure of its footing.
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Of course Facebook's going to change Instagram

Posted April 10, 2012 - 2:15 pm

Mark Zuckerberg assures us that Facebook won't change Instagram after paying $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing app. Don't believe him.
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The pre-paid smartphone world you never hear about is booming

Posted March 30, 2012 - 1:41 pm

A new report states that more than 50 percent of all phone purchases, prepaid or contractual, are smartphones, and that 29 percent of prepaid phones are smartphones.
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Intel's weird TV play, a more-square Lenovo tab, and ceramic Galaxy SIII?

Posted March 14, 2012 - 11:02 am

Some interesting stuff has bubbled up this week, including an Intel rumor that makes no sense! Please to enjoy this week’s mobile-ish roundup.
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Morning countdown: You really won't want to lose your phone now

Posted March 13, 2012 - 8:00 am

Though maybe it will get so irritating that you'll throw it away.
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Get out of my driveway, social-mobile-location apps

Posted March 12, 2012 - 4:19 pm

How many of your neighbors became friends by jumping into your driveway and yelling, “Kapow! Your neighbor, me, just had some explosively spicy Chinese food!”
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Your phone carrier: out of space, getting restless

Posted February 24, 2012 - 10:08 am

Cellphone carriers now have millions of tiny computers constantly looking for connections, and the narrow bandwidth chunks they were set up with aren’t cutting it anymore.
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Office on the iPad rumors, a bulkier iPad 3 case, and desktop-ready Android?

Posted February 22, 2012 - 8:45 am

Why would Microsoft deny that Office is coming to the iPad, when it's one of their most exciting upcoming releases? That and other mobile-centric rumors, rounded up and broken down.
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Apple's App Store nears 25 billion downloads. That's a lot of downloads.

Posted February 20, 2012 - 1:40 pm

Apple's App Store is nearing its 25 billionth download in just 3 1/2 years.
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Can an Android phone run without Google?

Posted February 20, 2012 - 11:51 am

So, how, exactly, do you trick Google into giving you the foundation without allowing them to look through any windows? Here’s how to set up an almost entirely non-Google-powered Android, in practice.
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Fun toilet telephone facts

Posted January 30, 2012 - 8:41 pm

A marketing firm surveys Americans on mobile phone use in the bathroom. You don't want to know (yet you already do).
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'Mobile First' gaining momentum, but so is 'Web Second'

Posted January 30, 2012 - 11:26 am

There are many reasons to value mobile users and their eagerness to try (and buy) things, but the web is where you'll find your truest fans.
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Everyone is the new CEO of RIM!

Posted January 23, 2012 - 11:33 am

Lots of people have been talking for months about what a new CEO for the maker of BlackBerry should do. Now's as good a time as any to compile that advice into one handy guide.
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The quirky conundrum of tethering and hotspots

Posted January 20, 2012 - 12:06 pm

Can you use your phone as your go-to connection for getting work done? Yes, but only if you're willing to pay serious monthly cash--or play a game of hide-and-seek with your carrier.
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How to access Wikipedia and other blacked-out pages today

Posted January 18, 2012 - 8:49 am

Your phone, or your desktop browser imitating your phone, can get at a lot of pages blacked out today in opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act. Here's how.
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The best Google security tool that you can't use now

Posted January 17, 2012 - 11:49 am

A nifty Google tool could log you into any computer without your typing a single character of your password. Let's hope it comes back soon.
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Your cheat sheet to CES' notable mobile happenings

Posted January 11, 2012 - 12:30 pm

Here’s a short list of the things worth talking about at CES in 2012, at least in the mobile realm.
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No. 4 tech story of 2011: AT&T's $4 billion blink

Posted December 28, 2011 - 3:33 pm

Wireless giant AT&T pushed hard for its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, but finally threw in the towel in the face of antitrust opposition.
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Resolutions (and disclosures) for 2012

Posted December 27, 2011 - 6:04 pm

A few ground rules, and a list of disclosures, from the Mobilize blog before 2012 rolls around.
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No. 8 tech story of 2011: Patent wars

Posted December 26, 2011 - 7:25 pm

The legal battles over mobile technology patents intensified in 2011, with Apple, Samsung and Motorola squaring off in courts around the world.
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More reasons why Dropbox has won so many geeky hearts

Posted December 23, 2011 - 12:17 pm

Here are a few intangibles that have made Dropbox such a big success among the early adopting, tech-loving crowd.
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After the 10-cent rush: What the Android Market needs now

Posted December 14, 2011 - 12:45 pm

10 billion downloads? Cool. 10-cent apps? Nifty. Now Android needs to get people used to, and even excited for, paying full price.
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Tech stocks party like it's 1999

Posted December 9, 2011 - 6:25 pm

Tech investors get an early holiday present on Friday as shares of Internet, software and mobile companies post gains.
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Update: HP to go open source with webOS

Posted December 9, 2011 - 1:30 pm

HP chief executive Meg Whitman on Friday announced the company would turn over the fate of webOS to the open source community.
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